Nissan bolsters taskforce to prepare for Ghosn broadsides, sources say GlobeBusiness
Former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn seen during a joint interview in Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture on May 13, 2016.Nissan Motor Co has strengthened a taskforce of senior officials ahead of an expected onslaught of criticism from former chairman Carlos Ghosn following his dramatic escape from house arrest in Japan, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
He has argued through his lawyers that his arrest was part of a boardroom coup d’état and that top Nissan executives signed off and participated in some of the financial transactions that are now central to the charges against him. Nissan has denied this, and is bracing for more such allegations.“Now that he has escaped, he can say anything he wants and will keep throwing mud at us until people prove him otherwise,” one company executive told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The Nissan taskforce was set up shortly after Ghosn’s arrest to deal with “anything Ghosn-related,” as one source put it – a testament to the significance of a man who forged the company’s alliance with French car maker Renault and presided over it for almost two decades. Both former executives were previously close allies of Ghosn and while they stepped down in a recent management shakeup they remain employed at Nissan as advisers.
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